Ah Jiu told Qian Chao that it would take more than two hours before he left. During this time, Qian Chao had already drawn the general topography of the Thousand Needles Pine Forest on a piece of paper, and also copied the inside according to Ah Jiu's words. The approximate locations where there are good things are marked on the picture one by one. During this period, Ah Jiu only told Qian Chao many things about the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. As for the other six forbidden areas, she did not tell them. She also wanted to take a look. Whether Qian Chao has the ability to achieve what she wants, then she will take the next step.
After sending Ah Jiu away, Qian Chao stared at the pictures he drew on the table in trance.
Tang Ping also stared at the picture. After looking at it for a while, she asked Qian Chao:
"Boy Qian, do you really want to do so many things in there?"
Qian Chao didn't understand what Tang Ping meant and asked:
"What am I going to do in there?"
Tang Ping considered and said:
"What Ah Jiu said, it contains spiritual spring water, spiritual grass, and minerals for your weapon refining. It seems that you are very tempted, and you also promised to help Ah Jiu deal with the arrows, pigs, and horns in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. Xiaoniao, will this be difficult? After all, it is a forbidden area and very dangerous, and you also said that your subtle technique can only last for half an hour. Can you do so many things in such a short time? "
Qian Chao smiled when he heard this:
"Don't worry, if I enter the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, I won't come out every half an hour. That would be too troublesome. I have the means to find a suitable place to set up an array to hide myself and recover at the same time. Spiritual energy, well, before I go in, you have to give me more of the spiritual wine you brewed. It will definitely be used inside. Also, give me some of the small bottles you used to collect spiritual spring water. If I Once I find it, I will just put it down and collect it, and then I will go do other things and take it out before I come out. Well, it is the spiritual herbs that need to be collected, so I need to ask Sister Yan for advice."
"Then...how long do you plan to stay in there?"
"Well... it's my first time to cooperate with Miss Ninth, no matter what, I have to satisfy her. According to what she said, after I enter, I have to stay in there for a day, two or even longer..."
"It takes so long!" Tang Ping said worriedly.
Qian Chao said:
"It is useless if time is short. It is also a very big place. In addition to the good things Ah Jiu said, I mainly need to determine the direction of the spiritual veins there. This is the most time-consuming, but it makes the spiritual veins clear. Only by walking towards will you know if there is a 'land of divine power' inside. If there is, it is probably the place where Qingluan lays its eggs. Don't worry, Thousand Needles Pine Forest would be just like a guardian without those two powerful guys. The wok mountain is almost the same, there won’t be too much danger, as long as you are careful, you will be fine, but I have to keep using the subtle technique inside, and my movements will slow down. I will search slowly in such a large place, except for Qingluan. Eggs, we still need to find the Arrow Pig and the Horn Bird, and we also need to find a way to arrange an array to trap them. Two or three days may not be enough. Maybe I will come out once in the middle, and then go in again. During this time, you are outside. Just be patient and wait for me, but don’t worry, I’ll be fine in there.”
Tang Ping was not worried about Qian Chao's caution. She was worried about the danger inside, but she could only nod when Qian Chao said this.
Then Qian Chao said:
"This Ah Jiu... haha, if you hadn't said that her body is a nine-headed bird, I would have thought that she is just an ordinary female monk, and she is the kind of woman who is very scheming and unwilling to suffer losses. , Hey, Girl Tang, Ah Jiu said that she didn’t dare to mess with the two powerful guys in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, which means that the two guys inside are about the same strength as her. Is it possible that what I met after going in was What about the two of them? Since Arrow Pig and Hao Xiaoniao are on par with Ah Jiu, are they also transformed into human forms and staying inside?"
"No," Tang Ping said, "Ajiu has always been by my master's side. Her spiritual wisdom has been enlightened, she has a sense of shame and a lot of vanity. She also envies the monk's human form, so she specializes in cultivating The transformation technique usually appears in front of people in the form of a woman. Even if there are some demonic beasts and birds outside, they can only change shape at most. This transformation is different from disembodiment. Transformation is to change oneself, and metamorphosis is just a low-level illusion. There is a difference between the two. And whether it is an arrow, a pig, or a flying bird, all monsters and spiritual beasts, including Ah Jiu, must Only in the true form can you display your most powerful means, so if you find those two guys in the Thousand Needle Pine Forest, you must have seen their true form, and they are too lazy to show you their true form."
"I see, eh, by the way, speaking of which, what do the Arrow Pig and the Horn Bird look like? Do you have any graphics for me to take a look at?"
"Yes, of course there is," Tang Ping said, taking out a booklet from the storage bag and spreading it out. "It's all in there. It's pretty much what it looks like in the drawing."
…
In the next few days, Qian Chao did not go out in a hurry, but made preparations. After all, he was entering a forbidden area. Many items needed to be used in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest had to be prepared, so he started to get busy.
After being busy for a while, Qian Chao went to Qixia Mountain to find Yanxuan, and asked Yanxuan about several kinds of spiritual herbs, and also wanted to see what those spiritual herbs looked like.
Yanxuan was surprised after hearing this and asked:
"Brother Qian, these kinds of spiritual herbs you mentioned are all very high-level. Not to mention my place, even the several spiritual herbs gardens in Qixia Mountain are not planted. Well, some elders in Qixia Mountain who are proficient in alchemy There should be the kinds of spiritual herbs you mentioned in the medicine garden of my cave, but what are they used for, you ask, we don’t have any use for the elixirs refined from those spiritual herbs now.”
Qian Chao said:
"There are such spiritual herbs in the Thousand-Needles Pine Forest. I also guessed that Sister Yan won't need those high-level spiritual herbs for her current alchemy, but I plan to pick a few in the Thousand-Needles Pine Forest and raise them to obtain their seeds in the future. In this way, we can plant these spiritual herbs at any time when we need to use them in the future. I also heard that Ah Jiu said that there are many spiritual herbs that we can use in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. Sister Yan, why don’t you teach me some? How to identify spiritual grass, how to pick spiritual grass, if I find spiritual grass in the Thousand Needle Pine Forest, I can easily pick it and bring it out."
After hearing this, Yanxuan said with some confusion:
"Ajiu, is this the Ajiu of senior Guhuo?"
"Yes, that's her. Well, Ah Jiu came to see me a few days ago. She actually went to the forbidden areas outside the sect more times than Senior Guhuo. She came to me and told me about the situation in the forbidden areas outside. I thought that since I can't go in once, If it’s easy, then you shouldn’t return empty-handed, so I came to Sister Yan to learn some skills in identifying and picking spiritual herbs.”
"Brother Qian, I remember that your subtle technique only lasts for half an hour..." Yanxuan also had the same worries as Tang Ping.
"Don't worry. Although I can only maintain the subtle technique for half an hour, I still have a way to prevent the monsters inside from discovering me when I enter the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. It will take me about two or three days to carry it with me. "
"Does it take so long?"
"That's right..."
In the next few days, Qian Chao went to Qixia Mountain almost every day to look for Yanxuan. Tang Ping also looked for Qian Chao, but every time he found that Qian Chao was not there. After thinking about it, Tang Ping went directly to Yanxuan's residence in Qixia Mountain, and sure enough he found that Qian Chao was not there. Qian Chao was there, and Yanxuan didn't know where he got several high-level spiritual herbs and explained them to Qian Chao one by one. He also asked Qian Chao to practice picking spiritual herbs in her own medicine garden, and Qian Chao Chao Ye studied very seriously. In the past few days, whether it was distinguishing spiritual herbs or picking spiritual herbs, he had become quite good at it. Seeing these, Tang Ping confirmed that Qian Chao had said before that he would stay in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. A few days seems to be true.
…
As usual, before going out, the five of them practiced together for a day, and then sat together and talked.
The five of them all gained something from today's practice, and there seemed to be some faint signs of breakthrough. Li Jian held the tea cup and said:
"It seems that we are about to break through again. Do you feel this way?"
"Well, yes, I feel it too." Lu Pingchuan said.
"After another breakthrough, we will reach the seventh level of Qi Refining, and we will be one step closer to foundation building."
Yanxuan said that she had already begun to try to refine the foundation-building elixir, but she had failed several times to refine the elixir. She felt sorry for the wasted spiritual grass, so Yanxuan temporarily stopped. Now that she is approaching a breakthrough, she is ready to Try a few more times after the breakthrough.
Tang Ping said:
"Let's go out tomorrow. The place that Mr. Qian has decided to go to is the Thousand-Needles Pine Forest. A few days ago, my master's Ah Jiu came to see Mr. Qian and told him some things about the Thousand-Needles Pine Forest."
Li Jian asked:
"Why did Brother Qian choose Thousand Needles Pine Forest as the first place he went to?"
Qian Chao said:
"According to Ah Jiu, Thousand Needles Pine Forest is the least dangerous place among the seven forbidden areas."
Next, Qian Chao told everyone what Ah Jiu had said that day about the seven forbidden areas. Of course, Ah Jiu also told everyone about Ah Jiu's proposal to make a deal with Qian Chao and others, and then continued:
"I think the delicate balance formed by the two powerful monsters in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest may allow Qingluan to lay eggs inside. Of course, the specific situation cannot be understood until we go in, but there are really good things in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. There are a lot of them. In addition to some rare spiritual herbs and minerals, there is also a spiritual spring in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. If it can be brought out, it will be beneficial to Brother Li's Green Bamboo Spirit Sword and Tang Yatou's wine making. , so Thousand Needles Pine Forest is worth visiting, and this is also the first time of cooperation with Ah Jiu. If the Green Luan Egg cannot be found in Thousand Needles Pine Forest, then the situation in other forbidden areas will have to be revealed again. Ah Jiu asked for detailed advice, so whether I find the Green Luan Egg this time or not, I must satisfy Ah Jiu. Well, as for when I am in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, everyone has to watch me closely outside. Regarding Zhang Yi’s movements, before entering the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, I will arrange several formations for everyone to hide outside. Even if they follow them all the way to the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, they will not be able to find you."
This was the first time Li Jian heard about the spiritual spring water in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, and he was very moved after hearing it. If his green bamboo spiritual sword wanted to grow, it must be nourished and watered by different spiritual spring water.
But after listening to Qian Chao's words, Yanxuan asked doubtfully:
"How can Brother Qian be sure that Zhang Yi will definitely follow us?"
"It's easy to say. We can stay at the cold pool for a day on the way to the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. I think our actions will definitely make Zhang Yi restless. He will definitely find a way to stop us. Well, actually, this is the first time we have broken through. They haven't seen what they will do in the forbidden area, because our actions will catch them off guard, including Shangguan Hong. It is estimated that they will not expect us to enter the forbidden area to find the egg of Qingluan, but we will do it again for the second time. When we go to another forbidden area, they will definitely take action, and that's when we can see Zhang Yi clearly."
